No it looked JUST LIKE a chipmunk, with stripes, but was bigger and was not a chipmunk.

It was wild. Where do gerbils come from anyway, when were they wild? It wasn't them, they are small. It had the tail that quirks up like squirrels and chipmunks. Why am I talking about this it was my personal inland sea.

I like the idea of the Borg being ultimately a matriarchal society in their need for a Queen. They assimilate rather than conquer, this strikes me as a feminine wile that works better than the bludgeon.

Locutus was just there to help assimilate humans though, from what I understood. He was there because he understood humans (as well as starfleet classified info) and he would make the process easier to accomplish.

I got the impression that there might have been other versions of "locutus" (likely with different names fit for other species, seeing as how locutus is latin for speak, as in he is will speak to humans) for other species that the borg might have had difficulty in assimilating/conquering. Maybe that wasn't the intention but that's how I took it.

Anyway, I always hated the idea of an overarching borg queen, but I liked the idea that there would perhaps be different "ambassadors of assimilation" so to speak that the borg would prop up as a way to help them assimilate the tougher or less cooperative targets.

I didn't watch voyager though, and it probably contradicted what i'm saying. Don't ask me how I ended up in this thread, I have no idea.

They mentioned Picard, if not by name, then they were certainly talking about him, when the Borg became so reticent about the intense furious pain which comes from talking to humans, that they offered janeway and friends Seven of Nine as a mouthpiece.

Not Kings or Queens, but condoms.

They save the Borg the headache of conversing with the less than perfect.

First Thing the Borg should do if they're not idiots is mass produce your individuality.

So if there's a billion, billion "you" operating autonomously running about driving a billion processors in the collective, which 'you" is going to be returned to your "body" unless a billion lives are going to be integrated into a clot and wedged back into your soul?

Then in the ads, you have Janeway or Picard (Sisko saying you killed my wife you damn dirty hamburger, is a bit rough.) firing on the hamburger cubes, and the weapons bloke says, phaser fire is ineffective sir, we're just making them more delicious.